Quotes with mid-life

Quotes 3441 till 3460 of 4256.

  • Mark Twain There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought - a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • W. M. Thackeray There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Henri-Louis Bergson There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
    Henri-Louis Bergson
    French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature (1927) (1859 - 1941)
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  • Aldous Huxley There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Peter Ackroyd There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change.
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • William Allen White There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
    William Allen White
    American editor, writer (1868 - 1944)
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  • Billie Jean King There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
    Billie Jean
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Bell Hooks There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Erich Fromm There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Henry David Thoreau There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Jiddu Krishnamurti There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
    Jiddu Krishnamurti
    Indian theosophist (1895 - 1986)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Milan Kundera There is no perfection only life.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • George Eliot There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Eugène Ionesco There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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  • James Russell Lowell There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Byron Dorgan There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.
    Byron Dorgan
    American author, businessman (1942 - )
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  • Lord George Byron There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Charles Mackay There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
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